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alexmegamiSo you say the national media is biased against you, Mr. Harper?
...ARE YOU A FUCKING MORON?
(That's a rhetorical question. I know he is.)
Let's just take up that old US mantra of "oh, the liberal media is out to get me!" It's worked amazingly well for them, after all.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias, doesn't it, Mr. Harper?
He's trying to have his staff "select" which reporters get to ask him questions. Mmm, shades of Jeff Gannon. Good for the reporters for walking out.
Harper has said that he will deal with the local media instead...
"Basically, what he's saying is the regional media can be trusted to be compliant. They will find that insulting," said Chris Dornan, head of Carleton University's journalism school.
"Just as the national press corps will find insulting the suggestion that they're all paid-up Liberal hacks.
"He's going out of his way to make enemies - and that's not a good sign."
CBC version of the story (not different, just more... ours): Harper says he's finished with Ottawa press corps
...ARE YOU A FUCKING MORON?
(That's a rhetorical question. I know he is.)
Let's just take up that old US mantra of "oh, the liberal media is out to get me!" It's worked amazingly well for them, after all.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias, doesn't it, Mr. Harper?
He's trying to have his staff "select" which reporters get to ask him questions. Mmm, shades of Jeff Gannon. Good for the reporters for walking out.
Harper has said that he will deal with the local media instead...
"Basically, what he's saying is the regional media can be trusted to be compliant. They will find that insulting," said Chris Dornan, head of Carleton University's journalism school.
"Just as the national press corps will find insulting the suggestion that they're all paid-up Liberal hacks.
"He's going out of his way to make enemies - and that's not a good sign."
CBC version of the story (not different, just more... ours): Harper says he's finished with Ottawa press corps
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Date: 2006-05-25 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-25 05:57 am (UTC)Harper has groused publicly about an anti-Conservative bias in the media before - but not since becoming prime minister.
Ironically, senior Liberal officials earlier this year complained of an anti-Liberal bias in the national media.
In the dying days of the last election campaign, Paul Martin's staff grumbled that reporters were out to get them and were working to elect Harper.
Okay, it's not like people don't have biases - even newspeople (maybe, especially newspeople, even), but maybe if they stopped just saying the media is out to get them, and instead, thought about why the media might want to get them (ie: they're doing something BAD), stuff could get fixed, and everything would be fine (or, as fine as it can be when it's a situation involving politics).
Grrr.
And, selecting reporters? Seriously? Are we becoming the US, because if we are, I'm gonna throw a major fit of some kind while I can still do so without getting arrested...
sigh.
Hi :)
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Date: 2006-05-25 06:04 am (UTC)BTW, did you speak to Shirley about the June thing?
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Date: 2006-05-25 06:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-25 12:21 pm (UTC)And people would give the Conservatives a majority?
They've been making some good policy decisions overall, but they'd have to have a collective party IQ of -eleventy billion to not do things right now to get people on "their side". Just give it a year and watch.
I hate how dumb the public is.
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Date: 2006-05-25 03:23 pm (UTC)That is BRILLIANT. Mind if I post that as the quote of the day? :D
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Date: 2006-05-25 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-25 03:34 pm (UTC)Re: <3!
Date: 2006-05-25 03:38 pm (UTC)Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner, lambasting the media and the President. ;) It's long, but the quote is only about five minutes in.
"I know there's some polls out there saying that this man [the President] has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'reality'. And reality has a well-known liberal bias."
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Date: 2006-05-25 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-25 08:09 pm (UTC)If you want them to stop saying bad things about the bad things you do STOP DOING BAD THINGS.
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Date: 2006-05-26 05:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-26 05:42 am (UTC)